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This act established and protected worker's minimum wage and forty-hour week.
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The American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger to encourage women to control their own fertility.
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He was the 29th president of the United States.
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He was the 30th president of the United States.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the annual amount of admitted immigrants from any country. Only two percent of a country could be admitted into the US.
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first African American Labor union in the US.
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He was the 31st president of the United States.
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The United States enters into The Great Depression after the crash of the stock market.
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He was the 32nd president of the United States.
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or also known as the CIO, is formed.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes the New Deal on 1939 to help relieve Americans from the Great Depression.
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The Alien Registration Act, which is also known as the Smith Act, was passed by Congress in 1940. It made it illegal to teach or to advocate the overthrow of the American government.
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A. Philip Randolph threatened the US government to march on Washington, D.C. to protest against racial discrimination in defense jobs.
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The United States enters WWII after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Dec. 7, 1941.
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President Roosevelt signs with the purpose of prohibiting racial discrimination in defense industries. It was a response to A. Philip Randolph's call for a march on Washington, D.C.
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President Roosevelt sings Executive Order 9066 so the government can place anyone with Japanese dependence into internment camps under suspicion of disloyalty to the US.